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How about all the other password managers, especially Chrome's?



It depends how well they are implemented (what is stored where, how it is stored and accessed, etc). It would be certainly trivial to grab the necessary files from a Chrome or Firefox profile, but if they are well-encrypted they could be practically uncrackable (although, as we know, that definition changes so fast these days). At that point it becomes about attacking or impersonating the actual process, which is not that easy - you might need another exploit for the app, or replacing the entire app without arising suspicion (a lot of apps are not even installed in the user profile, so this might well be impossible). In the end, it very much depends, but I don’t think it’s as trivial as some suggest - at least for mass-attacks/viruses, specific targeting is a different ballgame.


Nowadays I don’t think chrome even stores the passwords locally. Maybe for signed out users but it seems like all my passwords are stored at passwords.google.com.


It very much stores the passwords locally, even if you enable syncing. It wouldn't make sense for it not to.


Gnome keyring was storing credentials in memory in plain text until very recently

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20781




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